Munnar is an idyllic hill station that has been producing tea from 1880s. It is South India's largest tea-growing region that is seemingly carpeted in emerald-green tea plantations. The tea bushes, contoured, clipped and sculpted like ornamental hedges, it is idfeed a sight to behold. Munnar is today the commercial center of some of the world’s highest tea-growing estates.
In Munnar, you are often up above the clouds and the scenery is simply magnificent with veils of mist clinging to mountaintops. The Munnar town is almost always traffic-clogged. However, if you wander just a few miles out you will be engulfed in a sea of a thousand shades of green.
Home to the Nilgiri Tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius, former name is Hemitragus hylocrius), an endangered species of wild goats only found in this region. The Eravikulam National Park has the highest density and largest surviving population of the Nilgiri Tahr. The Nilgiri Tahr is a congener of the Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus), found in Kashmir and Bhutan and the Arabian Tahr (Arabitragus jayakari), and found in Oman and the United Arab Emirates.